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Topic: Solo 2200, Sound and Network Problems

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Posted: Nov. 02 2005,22:39

I have recently installed DSL on a Gateway Solo 2200. I was very impressed with how quickly the system installed and now runs on this very old laptop. However, I have been unable to get my sound working. It also is not detecting my Cisco Aironet 340 network card. I am kind of a novice in the linux arena. I started looking for something like DSL for this laptop when I realized Fedora was entirely too large to install on a 2gb hard drive. I have never compiled a kernel myself, and I am not sure I am ready for such a task quite yet. Can anyone offer me some help. If you need any more info, please ask. Thanks!

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Posted: Nov. 03 2005,06:16

If your audio chipset is Creative Ectiva EV1398 (you should check this) it is supported by the OSS es1371 module, so -
modprobe es1371

You should also run "modinfo es1371" to check options.

The Cisco Aironet 340 is supported by the airo_cs module, so -
modprobe airo_cs

I'm not sure if iwconfig is used to set up this module, you will need to find out. If it is, do this -
iwconfig eth0 essid MY_ESSID key 1234567890 mode managed
pump -i eth0 # (for automatic IP)

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Posted: Nov. 03 2005,22:07

Thank you very much for your quick reply. I am going to try your suggestions in a few hours. Can you tell me how I could find out exactly what chipset the Solo2200 uses? I went to gateway's site, but could find nothing that detailed. They only get as far as replacement ram and processor speed.

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Posted: Nov. 03 2005,23:46

Check the output messages after running -
lspci -v
cat /proc/interrupts (usually sound card is listed at IRQ5)
dmesg

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Posted: Nov. 04 2005,05:11

Ok, I am going to try and type all of this out. The only way since my laptop doesn't have a floppy drive

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After typing: "lspci -v" I am prompted as follows.

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 430MX - 82437MX Mob. System Ctrlr (MTSC) & 82438MX Data Path (MTDP) (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32

0000:00:01.0 Bridge: Intel Corp. 430MX - 82371MX Mobile PCI I/O IDE Xcelerator (MPIIX) (rev 03)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:0d.0 PCMCIA bridge: Cirrus Logic CL 6729 (rev ee)
Flags: stepping, slow devsel
I/O ports at fcfc [disabled] [size=4]

0000:00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65554 (rev c2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Flags: stepping, medium devsel
Memory at 3e000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=256K]

I got an error about that contained init_module: No such device after "modprobe es1371"

I also got an error after "modprobe airo_cs" that contained this init_module: Operation not allowed.

It appears that maybe my PCMCIA bridge is not working. Any idea from the above info? I guess I would like to get the network card working first so I don't have to type out the error messages

. Thanks again for your willingness to help!

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